Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
